A Doll's House

What would you risk for the ones that you love? The Dolls House revolves deeply around that question. The story contains drama, suspense, and a serious problem. Nora sacrifices everything she stands for to save her loving husband from dying from an illness would you do the same? One major theme that stood out to me the most was that everyone has consequences for their actions whether good or bad. Three cases of this theme are Nora taking out the loan to save Torvald's life. Secondly, Krogstad forging a signature to get money for his dying sickly wife.
Lastly, Mrs. Linde married her first husband just because of his wealth, and not out of love.
Nora faced negative consequences even though her purpose behind it was a good one. Nora believed that it was her duty to save Torvald's life when he was deathly illness upon him. Nora claims that “I am the sole reason why Torvald is alive on this day” another quote Nora made was “I was most responsible for his survival”. Nora believes that forging her father's signature and receiving money was alright, because it was for the good purpose of secretly saving her husband's life. Nora later in the play suffered the consequences of her actions when Krogstad threatened to take her secret public, and

thus that would not only derail the little reputation she had, but also Torvalds. Also the divorce of Nora and Torvald was because of what Nora did behind Torvalds back.
Another example of this theme is similar to what Nora did.

Krogstad, like Nora, also forged a signature to receive money and save someone that he loved, in this case it was Krogstad's wife that was deathly sick and needed immediate help. Again although Krogstad performed an illegal action for a good purpose he still had to face the consequences of his actions. From his forgery Krogstad lost his job, and his honor in the process of his downfall. Even after he received the money Krogstad's wife still passed away. Krogstad practically lost everything he cared most for just from forging one name. Krogstad believes he made a huge mistake with this by saying “Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his

punishment.”
The last example of facing consequences is Mrs. Linde. Mrs. Linde, wanted her life to be simple. She wanted to marry a rich, successful man and live a pampered life for the rest of her days. This is exactly what Mrs. Linde did, she married out of money, not out of love. Mrs. Linde faced these consequences when her husband died and then became a widow. After her husband died she was left with nothing including money. Mrs. linde said “He was very well off, I'd say. But the business was shaky, Nora. When he died, it all fell apart, and nothing was left.” If Mrs. Linde would rather have married for love rather than money she still could have been happily married and would not be in the situation that she is in now.
I would do anything for a loved one that needed dire help, even something illegal, if it meant that it would save their lives. I understand why some of what these characters did what they did. With both Nora, and Krogstad committing forgery to save loved ones is completely acceptable in my eyes. Even though these actions were not intended to harm anyone they both faced negative consequences and resulted in bringing even more more problems than what they began with.